Professional Development Plan

Name:Britne
y Catalan

Date:
08/20/2020

Career SLP, or maybe teaching. Working with

Goals: kids for sure!

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Note: This document is merely a template to help you in your personal and career growth – to help you move from “good” to
“great”! Feel free to use all or part of the elements provided. Research shows that the more planning and details you build into a
development plan, the more likely you will actually stick to the plan and change for the better!

Steps in the development planning process

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 Determine where your strengths & development needs exist

Consider

Technical & Functional Competencies and

Knowledge and Skills Behaviors

Select one to three areas where focused development would have the most impact on achieving your current and/or future goals

Create detailed action plans for development

Determining where to focus your development efforts

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Where will development provide you with the greatest impact for your success?

 Consider the technical and functional knowledge and skills required for your success

 Recall prior feedback from professors, employers, family etc.,

 Determine where focused development would have the greatest impact on your ability to achieve your objectives successfully

 Consider your career/growth goals in determining which competencies would be most impactful if developed.

 Select from three areas that will be most beneficial for your development (e.g., leveraging a strength, strengthening a proficiency, or neutralizing a
weakness) and list them in the table below. Indicate with a check mark whether this is a strength, proficiency, or weakness.

I will see the greatest impact on my success by focusing development in the following areas:

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Competency/Behavior Strength Proficiency Weakness

to Leverage to Strengthen to Neutralize

1. Decision- Making I have great Getting Sometimes it’s
leadership skills informed, doing hard to go with
but want to more research my gut.
improve on Therefore, I
knowing what have to learn to
step to make sometimes
next narrow down
my options.
2. Communication I am Getting more Engage more
independent involved with with my peers,
and sometimes people also developing
like doings listening skills
thing on my
own. However,
I want to be
more open.
3. Public Speaking I am good at Speaking with Inclusivity in
opening up professionals the classroom
conversation

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 Development Action Plan – Goal 1

Development Goal 1 I will improve my Decision-making skills so that it increases my confidence level.

What do you want to change? What will result from this

change? What would success look like?
I will know that I have been successful when I start to feel confident and knowing I did my best.

Tasks/Activities Target Dates Support Needed/Barriers

When will you start/stop and To Overcome
What specific tasks/activities will you do to help reach your goal? complete each action? What help will you need and from
whom? What barriers will you likely
face?

1. Doing my research Starting today, and never Having research to back me up, I won’t
stopping but getting better each always be right but being informed will
day. help. Barrier might be that I won’t
always get my questions answered.

2. Asking my peers more questions Every-time I have a doubt! I can always ask for advice; however,
they might not always be right.

3. Being involved in my workplace Whenever I get the opportunity It might be difficult to be involved due
to time, however I just need to have
better time management skills.

4. Never be afraid to stand up what I believe in Never I won’t always be right, but I have to
make sure that I can back up my
decisions and feeling confident.

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 Development Action Plan – Goal 2

Development Goal 2 I will improve my communication skills so that I won’t be afraid to speak up

What do you want to change? What will result from this

change? What would success look like?
I will know that I have been successful when I start to see success in my public speaking skills.

Tasks/Activities Target Dates Support Needed/Barriers

When will you start/stop and To Overcome
What specific tasks/activities will you do to help reach your goal? complete each action? What help will you need and from whom?
What barriers will you likely face?

1. Make communication a priority Today, never stop until I see I will need to talk with more people,
results and try to get better there’s no barrier unless they don’t want
each day to speak

2. Take time to respond Never stop I will also need to feel involvement from
others

3. Stay on message Never stop No barriers as long as they communicate

with me as well

4. Engage with the person I am talking to Starting today Asking more questions and show that I am
paying attention, barrier might be that
some people are just not engaging.

Development Action Plan – Goal 3

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 Development Goal 3 I will improve my public speaking skills so that I can be a confident when I speak in large crowds or anywhere.

What do you want to change? What will result from this

change? What would success look like?
I will know that I have been successful when I start getting less nervous when I speak in crowds.

Tasks/Activities Target Dates Support Needed/Barriers

When will you start/stop and To Overcome
What specific tasks/activities will you do to help reach your goal? complete each action? What help will you need and from whom?
What barriers will you likely face?

1. Practice I can start practicing before I am my own barrier, just finding the time
any presentation or whenever to practice is key
the case may be

2. Having great body language I can start when I get on Zoom Zoom might not catch my body, but I can
classes still practice.

3. Making eye-contact Any time I get the chance I might get nervous and break eye-contact.

Calming myself down before I Taking deep breaths, practicing and being
4. Cope with nerves
have to present or talk in prepared is key. Things might not go as
public planned but I have to go with the flow.

I can start anytime I have watching myself talk, I have to get

5. Watch recordings of my speech
comfortable with that.

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 Professional Goals
Short-Term Goals (1 – 3 years):
Finishing my degree, find an internship where I can hopefully get employment. I
would also love to go to grad for my SLP degree.

Midrange Goals (5 - 6 years):

Having a job that I love, working with children.

Long-Term Goals (10 years):

I hope that I have a job where I love and hopefully in the SLP profession working with
children.

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 In- Completed Notes
Description of professional development activity completed Date(s)start progress
ed

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Professional Development Opportunities Completed

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